It’s A Sad And Beautiful World

One thing the Internet … even the Web … has definitely achieved is to give a voice to people who otherwise might not have one — or at least not feel that they have one.

Whether this is a good thing, a bad thing or no thing at all is a different kettle of fish, however. … as is the matter of the cost of that — we are certainly guzzling the planet’s resources quickly and using a disturbing amount of physical space for something … ‘1’ and ‘0’ … that, so I have been given to understand, does not even exist at all, let alone exist physically.

How long does a mobile/cellular phone last?

Where are the texts stored on the networks, as they must be for the service providers to be compliant with the Law?

What about the ten years’ worth of emails you haven’t deleted?

Your tweets about what you did in the bathroom this year?

All the pictures and videos and movies and music out there in ‘the Cloud’?

Hard drives?

Processors?

RAM?

‘Flash’ cards?

Pods, Pads and probably … possibly … who knows … in the not too distant future, perhaps … Panties™?

All the lives of misery in the economic equivalent of forced labour camps?

And all for … so I have been given to understand … no thing at all.

It’s a sad and beautiful world.